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High Stakes Assessment: Comparing the States (grades 6-12)

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The 12-foot-long bed of a dump truck loaded with debris must rise to an angle of 30° before the debris will spill out. Approximately how high must the front of the bed rise for the debris to spill out?

Elena plans to rent a motorbike at the beach. She uses a rental service that charges a fixed fee of $25 plus $15 for each hour or part of an hour that she uses the bike. Fill in the table and extend the patterns to show the total charges if she works from 9:15 am to 5:40 pm.

Joseph and Cindy made up a game in their mathematics class. To earn points in the game, each player rolls a six-sided cube with numbers 1 through 6 on the sides and then flips a coin. When the coin lands “tails up,” the player gets a total number of points equal to the number at the top of the cube. When the coin lands “heads up,” the player’s points are doubled for that turn. In the box below, list all the possible outcomes for each turn. Then indicate the probability of a player getting 6 points in one turn.

Briefly describe the changes that took place for one group during the entire time period shown. Name the group and describe the changes using numbers and years in your description.

Describe one way that any two of the groups changed in relation to one another during a particular period of time. Name the two groups. Give the time period you are considering. Describe how the two groups changed in relation to one another during that particular time period.

The graph below shows the number of milligrams of a medication in the bloodstream from the time it was administered to 300 minutes after administration. Using the information from the graph, which of the following statements is true?

A. The maximum amount of

medication in the bloodstream

was 12 milligrams.

B. The minimum amount of

medication was in the bloodstream

300 minutes after administration.

C. The amount of medication in the bloodstream increased at a faster rate than it decreased.

D. The maximum amount of medication was in the bloodstream 100 minutes after administration.

In a report on the history of irrational numbers, Celine compared three different values that have been used to approximate π. The values are listed below.

Egyptian approximation……. Chinese approximation……

Archimedes’ approximation (Greek)……..

a. Celine compared the approximation used by the Egyptians to a value (22/7) often used for π. She converted both to decimals rounded to four decimal places (nearest ten-thousandth). To the nearest ten-thousandth, what is the absolute value of the difference between them. Show or explain how you got your answer.

b. Celine also compared the approximation used by the Chinese to 22/7. To the nearest ten-thousandth, what is the absolute value of the difference between them.

c. Celine knows that π is approximately 3.1415927. Place the four approximations in order from least to greatest.

A new game called Right Triangle Toss is becoming very popular. Take a beanbag and toss it onto the board while blindfolded. The object is to toss three beanbags into the same region. What is the area of each colored region? Show or explain how you find your answer.

What is the probability of one beanbag being tossed into the red region? The blue region? The yellow region?

Find the probability of a beanbag landing in the yellow region three times in a row.

An architect is using a computer program to design the entrance of a railroad tunnel. The outline of the opening is modeled by the function f(x) = 8 sin x + 2, in the interval 0 ≤ x ≤ π, where x is expressed in radians.

Solve algebraically for all values of x in the interval 0 ≤ x ≤ π, where the height of the opening, f(x), is 6. Express your answer in terms of π. If the x-axis represents the base of the tunnel, what is the maximum height of the entrance of the tunnel?

Sam and Max sell bags of peanuts and popcorn at baseball games. One matrix (bottom left) shows the number of bags they sold during the July 1st game. The second matrix shows the number of bags sold during the July 2nd games. Which matrix shows how many more bags were sold during the second games than in the first?

How have High School Exit Exams changed our Schools? Perspectives from Virginia and Maryland

Exams have had a “noticeable impact,” leading to significant changes in instructional content and methods, allocation of resources, staffing patterns, and school climate.

Teachers and principals – even those who disagree with the exit exam policy – seem committed to helping students pass the exams.

Educators spend more time emphasizing topics and skills likely to be tested and on test taking skills, bringing greater focus to instruction but potentially inhibiting more in-depth learning and time for non-tested topics.